Peaches Geldof felt her mother was "living through me all the time
because we are just so similar", she said in a final interview

Peaches Geldof spoke of how she had not yet "made peace" with the problems of her childhood in one of her final interviews before she died but said she was full of hope for the future with her two young children.

The television presenter said the wounds from her youth had begun to "heal" since the birth of Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra, and motherhood had helped her come to terms with the death of her own mother, Paula Yates, who died when Miss Geldof was just 11.

In an interview with Aga Living magazine, published in The Sunday Times, Miss Geldof said she felt her mother was "living through me all the time because we are just so similar".

Miss Geldof was found dead with her son Phaedra by her side last week at her home in Kent.

However, in comments that will add to the mystery of her death, the 25-year-old revealed she was excited about life with her young family and was planning for the future.

Miss Geldof said: "Now I am a mum, I can correct those awful parts of my childhood and it's a really healing process. Before, I was not at peace with myself about it because I was just traumatised ... But now I have the kids I can heal the situation. It's so good in every single way."

She described how motherhood had allowed her to reconcile herself with memories of her mother.

"I'm not sure I've yet fully made peace with my childhood, but with my mum I have come to terms with everything," she said.

"She had a really difficult time. There are so many parallels between us. Now I can understand everything. I think you have to experience hardships and pain yourself to fully understand people who have been through it and also you can never really experience happiness unless you've had that down feeling, too.

"Sometimes it's enjoyable to be a bit depressive, I think."

Peaches also talked about how much she wanted another child, saying: "I would love to have a girl, purely to dress her up. My mum used to dress us in matching outfits to her own and I loved that."

Speculation about Miss Geldof's state of mind in the hours before her death was initially triggered after it emerged that the night before she died she posted a picture online showing herself as a toddler in the arms of her late mother Paula Yates.

But doubt has been cast on suggestions she was suffering from depression, with friends insisting she had found deep fulfilment in motherhood and was completely devoted to her two children.